Channel: Workplace Revolution
The Workplace Revolution channel interviews a wide range of business leaders, change agents, and visionaries who believe in the potential of business to be a force for good in the world, but who also are aware of the challenges. Transformational strategies on both a personal and organizational level will be addressed in a series of lively discussions that will explore the institution of business and our personal experiences at work from many perspectives. Is there meaning in the workplace and hope for business to be conscious global citizens?
Listing of recorded teleseminars in this channel
October 29, 2008
Author and political activist Byron Belitsos talks with host Matthew Gilbert about Democratic World Federalists. Byron provides a brief history of the proponents of an elected global governance system, including Albert Einstein. 
July 30, 2008
Rinaldo Brutoco, Founder & President of the World Business Academy talks with Shift Magazine Editor in Chief, Matthew Gilbert about our economy at this challenging time. Rinaldo offers great practical information to help us understand the implications of collective consciousness on our macro and micro economic well-being. 
June 3, 2008
Most businesses have five stakeholder groups. In order of importance, Men’s Wearhouse ranks them: employees, customers, vendors, communities and shareholders.
April 30, 2008
While the old financial order is crumbling, signs of the growth of the cleaner, greener 21st Century global economy are everywhere: from the new moves in many countries to change our scorecards of progress beyond GDP to those measuring quality of life -- to the new investments cascading into the green sectors.
December 12, 2007
Have you ever wondered how you can personally make a difference and help people in developing countries?
In this teleseminar, Jessica Flannery and host Matthew Gilbert, talk about a practical and personal way you can help through kiva.org.
September 12, 2007
In this teleseminar, Dr. C. Otto Scharmer of M.I.T explores the power of “presencing” in relationship to changes in systems such as business, health, and sustainability.
August 15, 2007 | 1 comment
Matthew Gilbert and his guest John Renesch, an author and businessman-turned-futurist discuss "Beyond Reasonable Leadership". John has published a dozen books and articles on organizational and social transformation. He has owned and operated an advertising agency, been a CEO of a real estate investment company and ran two securities firms. He has also spent the last thirty years exploring the field of human consciousness and potential. 
May 23, 2007
Juana Bordas is president of Mestiza Leadership International, serves on the board of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and is board president of the Circle for Latina Leadership. She was the founding president and CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. Juana is the author of Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age.
April 11, 2007
In this teleseminar, artist and inspirational visionary Jan Philips takes us on a pilgrimage of truth and transformation, beginning with her days in the convent, continuing to her global peace pilgrimage, and ending with humorous and transformational workshops for business leaders.
February 14, 2007 | 2 comments
Join host Matthew Gilbert and his guest Bernard Lietaer, an economist and author who was one of the designers of the new European currency, the Euro. Bernard has been active in the domain of money systems for over 25 years in a wide variety of functions. His consulting experience spans four continents and ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries. He is the author of "The Future of Money" and the forthcoming "Of Human Wealth."
January 3, 2007
Workplace Revolution host, Matthew Gilbert and guest Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought provoking conversation on "Building True Wealth"
Catherine Austin Fitts is founder of Solari Investor Circles, private investment partnerships that practice financial intimacy — investing in networks of people and products.
November 8, 2006 | 1 comment
Join host Matthew Gilbert and guest Marc Lesser, an ordained Zen priest and entrepreneur with a multi-million dollar business, for an engaging dialogue on combining spiritual practice and business.
September 27, 2006
Matthew Gilbert and guest Kiril Sokoloff discuss significant global economic trends affecting peoples of all cultures as well as what Sokoloff calls "the world's greatest conundrum"--the growing split between entrepreneurial and populist paths of evolution and emergence. 
August 16, 2006 | 1 comment
Find out how George has built a profitable and successful company on conscious principles, leading Men’s Wearhouse to be voted one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Hear this innovative leader discuss how to blend leading-edge management and consciousness principles into a recipe for success. 
July 7, 2006
Join Peter Barnes in a live teleseminar dialogue with Workplace Revolution channel host Matthew Gilbert on the subject of "Capitalism 3.0." Peter is the author of Who Owns the Sky: Our Common Assets and The Future Of Capitalism, and the upcoming Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
May 24, 2006
Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, economist, producer, and author. In this teleseminar, she explores a wide range of visionary topics, from the importance of becoming “glocal? to shifting economic measures towards quality of life to harnessing venture capital markets to address our energy crisis. Hazel is one of the most sought-after voices of business wisdom, with eight published books and editorials that have appeared in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers globally. 
April 12, 2006
In this compelling call to social action, organizational expert David Korten and IONS host/workplace revolutionary Matthew Gilbert challenge us to question the “stories” underlying the dominant capitalist paradigm. They urge us to seize the cultural power that will enable us to change those stories and – in so doing – change the world.
December 4, 2005
Join the bestselling author of Quantum Self and Quantum Society Danah Zohar in a teleseminar dialogue with Matthew Gilbert about her recent work on capitalism and corporations, Spiritual Capital.
October 27, 2005
Herman Maynard, former Dupont executive, member of the World Business Academy, and co-author of The Fourth Wave: Business in the Twenty-First Century, joins Matthew Gilbert to discuss where the current business model is headed, how it got there, and how new-paradigm management techniques will steer us through the coming transition.
September 10, 2005
Organizational consultant Margaret Wheatley takes Hurricane Katrina as a case of the successes and failures of our models of leadership. Whereas Nature sustainably employs small, self-organizing groups networking into a large functional system, our leadership models habitually resort to disastrous "command and control" techniques. Join the Workplace Revolution channel in a critical look at today's leadership, and at the strategies we can use to put our humanity into practice.
August 5, 2005
Join host Matthew Gilbert and Judi Neal, the founder and executive director of Association for Spirit at Work, for a fascinating look at why an increasing number of companies are bringing spirituality into the workplace. Judi shares her own journey from a perilous stint as a whistleblower into her current role as a strong public advocate for greater integrity, compassion, and spirituality on the job.